Abdus Salam - Personal Life

Personal Life

Salam was a very private individual, who kept his public and personal lives quite separate. He married twice, and at his death, was survived by three daughters and a son by his first wife, and a son and daughter by his second, Professor Dame Louise Johnson, formerly Professor of Molecular Biophysics in Oxford University. He married Johnson in 1968 in London.

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